viii, 290 pages : 21 cm

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead

Unexpected Visitor -- Grown Up -- Riding in the Cars -- End of the Rails -- Railroad Camp -- The Black Ponies -- The West Begins -- Silver Lake -- Horse Thieves -- The Wonderful Afternoon -- Payday -- Wings Over Silver Lake -- Breaking Camp -- The Surveyors' House -- The Last Man Out -- Winter Days -- Wolves on Silver Lake -- Pa Finds the Homestead -- Christmas Eve -- The Night Before Christmas -- Merry Christmas -- Happy Winter Days -- On the Pilgrim Way -- The Spring Rush -- Pa's Bet -- The Building Boom -- Living in Town -- Moving Day -- The Shanty on the Claim -- Where Violets Grow -- Mosquitoes -- Evening Shadows Fall

Newbery Honor Book, 1940

Accelerated Reader Middle Grade 5.3

AR 5.3

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